Outstanding Paralegal Pro Bono Service Award: Andrea M. Blosser
The Outstanding Paralegal Pro Bono Service Award is presented to an outstanding NCBA Paralegal Division member who has volunteered a substantial amount of time in pro bono legal service to increase access to justice on behalf of persons of limited means and/or charitable groups or organizations. Pro bono service must have been completed under the direct supervision of an attorney licensed in the State of North Carolina in accordance with Rule 6.1. Nominees must have worked as a paralegal in a part-time, full-time, or freelance capacity in the year they are nominated for the award or be a retired paralegal who continues to give back to the community through pro bono service.
Andrea Blosser is a litigation paralegal with the law firm Robinson Bradshaw. She holds a Master of Studies in Law, with a concentration in business law and compliance, from Wake Forest University School of Law and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh.
In 2023, she began serving as a council member for the North Carolina Bar Association’s Paralegal Division. Since 2011, Andrea has also served on the board of directors for a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, focusing on mental health awareness and suicide prevention for young adults.
During the past year, Andrea’s pro bono work at Robinson Bradshaw has included representing a federal prisoner in a First Amendment challenge and assisting a former nursing home employee in a jury trial for racial harassment. In 2023, Andrea gave 270 hours of time to her firm’s pro bono practice.
Andrea also has contributed time to the Pro Bono Resource Center’s Driver’s License Restoration Project and Charlotte Expunction Clinic, the North Carolina Bar Foundation’s Wills for Heroes Clinic, and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status cases in the 26th Judicial District.